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SUMMARY:March P.M. Workshop:"Chapter Two: Perfecting and Finishing Your Book" with Author Wade Rouse:
LOCATION:Mission Hills Country Club\, 55th Grill Room\, Rancho Mirage
DESCRIPTION:https://palmspringswritersguild.org/event-556775\n\nSEATS ARE LIMITED!\n  Prepayment registration required.     Chapter Two: Perfecting and Finishing Your Book\n   \n                    Time to get serious! Register for this interactive workshop!\n       \n       Bestselling author Wade Rouse shares his tips for:\n            * Perfecting and completing YOUR manuscript\n\n              * Focusing on characterization\, structure\, narrative flow\, POP!\n\n              * The three H’s (humor\, honesty\, heartbreak).\n\n\n       After each point\, Wade will ask where you are stuck or need help. Wade will share his work and his tips\, and ask you to share your work. The majority of the workshop will focus on your manuscripts in progress. You will read excerpts\, and Wade will offer feedback and finite guidance.\n       \n       A chance to get serious feedback from the author of five critically-acclaimed books that have been featured on The Today Show\, Washington Post\, USA Today\, NPR\, the Chicago Tribune and Chelsea Lately on E!\n       \n       Wade Rouse is the author of five books\, including four critically-acclaimed memoirs: America’s Boy (Dutton/2006)\, Confessions of A Prep School Mommy Handler (Harmony/2007)\, and the bestsellers\, At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life (Harmony/2009)\, and It’s All Relative: A Memoir of Two Families\, Three Dogs\, 34 Holidays and 50 Boxes of Wine (Crown/2011). Wade is also the creator and editor of the humorous dog anthology\, I’m Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship: Hilarious\, Heartwarming Tales about Man’s Best Friends by America’s Favorite Humorists (September 6\, 2011-NAL/Penguin)\,which features a foreword by Chelsea Handler and her dog\, Chunk\, and essays by nine New York Times bestsellers and one Tony winner. Wade is donating 50 percent of the book’s net royalties to the Humane Society of the United States.\n       \n       Wade’s current memoir\, the IndieBound bestselling It’s All Relative: A Memoir of Two Families\, Three Dogs\, 34 Holidays and 50 Boxes of Wine\, asks and attempts to answer the question\, “How come the only thing my family tree grows is nuts?”\, in blisteringly funny detail. The book (out in paperback from Random House in February) deals with America’s obsession with picture-perfect holidays and celebrates Rouse’s imperfect familyundefineda chatty yet loving mother\, an eccentric engineer of a father\, a marvelously Martha Stewart-esque partner\, a garage-sale obsessed set of in-laws\, and an oddball collection of relativesundefinedthrough the yearly celebrations that bring out the very best in our nearest and dearest. Rouse paints a funny\, sad\, poignant\, and outlandish portrait of an all too typical family that will have you appreciating or bemoaning your own.\n\n                        Workshop will be held at: \n               Mission Hills Country Club\,\n\n        "Fifty-Fifth Room"\n\n        34-6000 Mission Hills Road\,\n        Rancho Mirage\, CA\n\n        Click here for map.\n\n               Payment & Registration Details\n            * Members - $30.00     Non-Members - $45.00\n\n              * Coffee/Tea & Pastries Included.\n\n              * Attendees must register online.\n\n\n              * Pre-Payment is required. No door sales.\n\n\n              * Online payment is available and is immediate.\n\n              * Payment by check: PSWG\, P.O. BOX 947\, Rancho Mirage\, CA 92247. Include contact information and Workshop Title on all checks. Checks may take 7-14 days to process.\n\n            * Member discount for workshops only. Members must login to enable discounted rate.\n\n              * Online Registration for this event closes March 21\, 2013.\n\n\n              * PSWG is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Tax ID #43-2093738.\n\n\n              * Cancelation Policy requires a 72 hour prior notice for full refund less credit card fees.\n\n                                      Contact person for this workshop:\n             Sunny Simon\, VP\, PSWG Programs\, PROGRAMS.PSWG@GMAIL.COM\n                                       If you would like to become a member of the\n            Palm Springs Writers Guild                              Please fill out our online membership application                              click on Membership Application                               \n       \n       \n        More info about Wade Rouse:\n       \n “It's rare to find a book that is both funny and mean\, family-intensive and gay-friendly\, gossipy and sweet. It’s All Relative is all of the above!” Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “A mix of humor\, poignancy and lust\, Rouse’s books only get funnier.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Funny\, sad\, touching\, and off-the-wall!”-Tulsa World.\n       \n       Wade’s essays and articles have appeared in numerous national magazines and online publications\, including Forbes.com\, which reaches nearly 10 million readers\, as well as on CBC Radio One’s popular “Definitely Not the Opera” in Canada and Chicago Public Radio. He has lectured and taught writing seminars around the country. To inquire about a possible appearance\, please visit www.rhspeakers.com or call 212-572-2013.\n       \n       Rouse’s personalized\, intense and transformational writing retreats undefined which center on overcoming fears in one’s life and one’s writing undefined and provide insider advice on securing a literary agent and finding success as a full-time author\, have been credited by numerous writers for helping their manuscripts be published by mainstream publishers. For more\, please visit www.WadesWriters.com.\n       \n       Wade earned his B.A. in communications (with honors) from Drury College (now University) and his master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.\n       \n       Rouse lives on the coast of Michigan\, where undefined in between beach weather and blizzards undefined he writes memoirs and battles for bed space with his partner\, Gary\, and their beloved mutt\, Mabel. Wade is a volunteer and fundraiser for Wishbone\, an animal shelter in Michigan\, a member of HRC\, and supporter of Hospice. He is a marathon runner\, avid reader and movie/theatre buff\, and addicted to fashion\, hair\, lip shimmer\, reality TV and non-fat\, triple shot white chocolate lattes.\n       \n       Wade is represented by literary agent Wendy Sherman of Wendy Sherman Associates in Manhattan\, and the Random House Speakers’ Bureau.\n       \n       For more\, please visit www.WadeRouse.com\, www.WadesWriters.com or www.rhspeakers.com.\n       \n                       \n 
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